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McKinsey & Company is sponsoring the first annual Tuck-Dartmouth College "StartUposium" today -- a one day symposium and career fair that will offer students the unique opportunity to interact with various startup companies that seek young talent to help boost them into success.
The StartUposium will feature a guest speaker, Aaron Cohen, CEO of Concrete Media, a panel discussion with the participating startup companies, a presentation by McKinsey & Company, and a career fair.
The career fair will be open for business, engineering and both graduate and undergraduate students to meet and interact with representatives of startup companies including Screaming Media, Be Free, Doublespace, HireEngine.com, Strong Numbers, LaunchCenter 39, and numerous other technology oriented firms or dot-coms, -- 18 companies in total.
The purpose of the StartUposium is to break the barrier that exists between students searching for career opportunities and newly emerging companies seeking to draw interest from bright, young, college graduates, according to graduate student Scott Simpson, a member of the Tuck Entrepreneurship Club, which is helping to organize this event.
Recent Tuck efforts such as eForums in San Francisco and Boston have in the past proven successful in informing students of what startups are available and looking for young talent, and helping startup companies in efficiently recruiting students.
Simpson said he encourages both undergraduates as well as graduate students to participate in the StartUposium.
Students will be able to learn about what types of people the companies are looking for, as well as have the chance to get the companies interested in them as potential interns or analysts by discussing the skills that they have that can make these companies successful, Simpson said.
Simpson said although it is impossible to define what kind of people companies are looking for, he said that generally the companies seek talented, intelligent, and motivated problem solvers to make the company grow.
